What is a ‘new born child’? Malaysia’s Court of Appeal clarifies citizenship laws for abandoned children

The Court of Appeal recently told a woman (identified only as G for privacy purposes) that she was not a “new born” child when found abandoned at around 1am at a bus station in Mentakab, Pahang in December 1997.

A doctor who examined G at that time had estimated she was aged about one year old, while G’s adoptive Malaysian mother’s police report filed two days later said she was approximately one and a half years old when found.

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